Citrix Senior Vice President, Brett Caine, recently noted in a blog post that “today’s workplace is increasingly not about a specific place and time – it is about the work we do.” Doesn’t it make sense to pay employees for the work they actually do, not the amount of time they spent in your offices?

I work from home and I’m a big fan of the flexibility it offers me. I’m given tasks and as long as I complete them before deadline, it doesn’t matter when I do the work or where. I can work from a cafe in the morning, or from my kitchen table at night. If it had an internet connection, I could work from Mars. It’s the best work setup I’ve ever had. Citrix’s research says 83% of companies will use a mobile workstyle strategy by 2014. So what’s so great about flexible workstyles? Citrix crunched the numbers: